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Example sentences for: pendulum

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As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
It is fascinating, for example, to note the many swings of the official pendulum between the two cardinal sins of "naturalism" (meaning grim subject matter) and "formalism" (denoting any sort of aesthetic deviation).
For the next several years the pendulum of power in Spain swung back and forth between Left and Right.
The pendulum swung away from those types of investigations during the 1980s and 1990s, though the FBI maintained an active counterintelligence function and was the lead agency for the investigation of foreign terrorist groups operating inside the United States.
First, of course, came Frank Sinatra, his death the beau ideal of an on-time departure, given his image's pendulum swing over the last three decades from ultracool to camp to ultracool once more.